RTSensors-2 Homepage

Welcome
to
RTsensors-2 home.This
software does not work with current lm-sensors library until I find
some time to adapt it.The new lm-sensors library recognizes chip features
automatically so
patches won't be needed anymore.
Anyway I may even change the way rtsensors reads and writes from/to the
hardware monitor to make it independent from the library.

PWM frequency support for the w83627hf
family has been included in
2.6.23 kernel :) See the kernel ChangelogIf you are
interested in testing the beta version email
me

What
is RTSensors?

Rtsensors is
a LINUX FAN SPEED CONTROL application, useful to
reduce fan noise and increase system reliability.
See RTSensors FAQ and Config
guide .

How
does it work?

RTSensors
can be configured by the user as an expert controller: The user can
specify the max/min speed of the system fans, the maximum affordable
temperature and so on... The controller tries to reduce fan speed to
reduce noise while the temperature is in a safe range chosen by the
user. So fan speed is modified automatically by the control algorithm,
you dont have to use those mechanic or thermal regulators on your fans
anymore :) .
Furthermore, RTSensors reduces temperature slopes and avoids thermal
stress caused by temperature variation. Therefore, your CPU will live
LONGER with RTSensors.

Applications

It reduces the noise by slowing down your fans, but keeping the
temperature in a safe range chosen by YOU.
LINUX Ecology Howto
Its very useful to control the temperature variation due to the
activation
of POWER MANAGEMENT states of AMD processors (K7 Athlon and Celeron):Athlon PowerSaving HowtoAthcool
Its also useful to control and monitorize hardware status of
overclocked machines (though I dont personally recommend you to do that)

Requirements?

THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW REFER TO THE OLD VERSION OF RTSENSORS, WHICH
NEEDS PATCHES.

1) To run
RTsensors-2,
you need lm-sensors
drivers and utilities.
Once lm-sensors is installed, run 'sensors' or 'sensors-detect' to find
out which hardware monitor is in your motherboard.

2) You also need lm-sensors
LIBRARY, called libsensors, find it here.
(To install
libsensors from lm-sensors source you will need sysfs, sysfs-dev, flex
and bison
packages)Sometimes
libsensors do not give full
access to all the needed features, thats why you must patch lm-sensors
library with the patches shown below.

3) Once lm-sensors and patched libsensors are installed,
you will need the following -dev
packages or
sources to compile
RTsensors-2:
- glibc-dev (for pthread
headers)
- gtk1.2-dev if you want to
compile the X-windows GUI.

Downloads

These downloads used to work with the current version of libsensors and
recent kernel releases.
Due to the difficulties about having to patch the kernel and the
library to install RTSensors I decided to wait for the new libsensors
library, which recognizes chip features automatically.PATCHES for libsensors:
1) Download latest lm-sensors stable version: lm_sensors-2.10.0
and this patch: lm_sensors-2.10.0.patch

Screenshots

You
can monitorize the status of the CONTROL algorithm (speed of fans,
temperature, cpu idle %) using one of these beautiful front-ends :)Console
front-endGTK GUI
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